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Political Consultant and Campaign Manager
About Michael Dobbin
In 2018, Michael Dobbin helped flip three rural Ohio statehouse seats previously held by Republicans for over a decade, not with TV ads or celebrity endorsements, but by training 47 local 'neighborhood captains' to host kitchen-table listening sessions, map voter concerns by hand on laminated county maps, and coordinate same-day GOTV rides using borrowed church vans and volunteer dispatchers texting via Signal. His approach treats data not as a replacement for human judgment but as a scaffold: he pioneered the use of low-bandwidth SMS voter ID tools in areas with spotty broadband, and co-designed the 'Rural Turnout Index,' a nonpartisan metric now adopted by six state Democratic parties to prioritize precincts where turnout gaps stem from infrastructure, not ideology. Dobbin doesn’t believe campaigns win elections; he believes they reveal whether a party has earned the right to govern, and that verdict is delivered block by block, not in swing-state averages.
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- “How did you identify and train those 47 neighborhood captains in Ohio?”
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